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I. Alferov was born in Vitebsk, Belorussia, USSR, on March 15,
1930. In 1952, he graduated from the Department of Electronics of
V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad. Since
1953 he has been a staff member of the Physico-Technical Institute where he
held consecutively the following positions: junior researcher (1953–1964),
senior researcher (1964–1967), head of the laboratory (1967–1987), director
(1987–present). He earned scientific degrees: a candidate of sciences in
technology in 1961 and a doctor of sciences in physics and mathematics in 1970,
both from the Ioffe Institute.
Since 1962 he has been working in
the area of III–V semiconductor heterostructures. His outstanding contributions
to physics and technology of III–V semiconductor heterostructures, especially
investigations of injection properties, development of lasers, solar cells,
LED's, and epitaxy processes have led to the creation of modern heterostructure
physics and electronics.
In 1973 Zh. I. Alferov
took over the chair of optoelectronics at the St Petersburg State
Electrotechnical University (former V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Electrotechnical Institute) and in 1988 he was appointed to Dean of the Faculty
of Physics and Technology at the St Petersburg Technical University.
He was elected a corresponding
member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972 and Academy's full member in
1979. From 1989 onward, he has been Vice-President of the USSR (Russian)
Academy of Sciences and President of its St Petersburg Scientific Center.
For his research Professor
Zh. I. Alferov was awarded a number of national and international
prizes:
and honorary memberships:
He is Editor-in-Chief of a Russian journal, Pis'ma
v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki (English-language version—Technical
Physics Letters) and a member of the Editorial Board of a Russian journal Nauka
i Zhizn' (Science and Life).
Zh. I. Alferov
is author of 4 books, 400 articles, and 50 inventions on semiconductor
technology